Harrison, Stampede’s captain, was playing for the older Legends side.
Stampede coach Cam Frear, who also played for the Legends, says the pair are competitive players "who play a similar type of game, and then I think it was part of entertainment for the crowd as well, a little bit".
Stampede beat the Legends 8-3 and then 7-6.
In second-round action this weekend, SkyCity Stampede play Dunedin Thunder today and on Saturday at the Queenstown Ice Arena — puck drop is 7pm both days.
Thunder are the only side top-of-the-table Stampede have lost to this season — 6-3 in Dunedin in the second game of their opening double-header.
"The southern derby, there’s always been plenty of feeling, and considering it’s a top-of-the-table clash, it just adds that other element to it," Frear says.
Meanwhile, the Wakatipu Wild women — who have battled hard this season despite being down on experience — play Dunedin away this Saturday and Sunday.
